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PROFESSIONAL CARDS. R.II I ONEsT~ ATTORNEY AT LAW, <■ ELBERTOK, GA. Special attention to the collection of claims, fly L. J. &ARTRELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ATLANTA , GA, PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES Clß cnit ahd District Courts at Atlanta, and Supreme and Superior Courts of the State. SHANNON & WORLEY, ATTORNE Y S AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. \\J ILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OP VV the Noi'thernvCircuit and Franklin county jg@“Special attention given to collections. J. s. HARNETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBF.RTGSf, GA. JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ELBEKTON, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS and Supreme Court. Prompt attention to the collection of claims. nevl7,ly .A. E. HUNTER, M. I). PRACTICING PHYSICIAN Office over the Drug Store, ELBERTON, GEORGIA. WILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL cases. [Ang22,6m EEBERTON BUSINESS CARDS. T7j73ioWMAN^&^Oo7 HEAL ESTATE AGENTS ELBERTON GA, WILL attend to the business of effecting sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS. Jl&y- Applications should be made to T. J. BOWMAN. SeplS-tf LIGHT CARRIAGES & BUGGIES. J. F. AlJIuI) (jJ/ARRIAdIi AN UFACT’ R EEBERTON, GEORGIA. WITH GOOD WORKMEN! LOWEST TRICKS! CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE , OF 27 YEARS, lie hopes by lionest and fair dealing to compete any other manufactory. Good Buggies, warranted, - 3125 to $l6O R E PAIRING AND BLAOKSMITIIING. Work done in this line in t very best style. The Best Harness TERMS CASH. My 22-1 y J. BARFIELD, THE BEAI, LIVE Fashionable Tailor, Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store, ELBERTON, GEORGIA. *as" Call and See Him. THE ELBERTON DRUG STORE H. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor. Has always on band a full line of Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines Makes a specialty of STATIONERY and PERFUMERY Anew assortment of WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES Plain and fsncy. just received, including a sup ply ot LEGAL CAP. CIGARS AND TOBACCO of all varieties, constantly on hand. W. C. PRESLEY, Mil Eli MAKIH ELBERTON, A. Will make first class harness to order, war ranted, and at prices to suit the times. Will he glad to show specimens of his work to parties, and no harm is done if ho work is wished. Bepairing Done Promptly. F. W. JACOBS, HOUSEI SIGN PAINTER Glazier and Grainer, ELBERTON, GA. Orders Solicited. Satisfaction Guaranteed. PEASE’S PALACE DINING ROOMS, ATL ANITA, GEORGIA. Tliu Ohampion Dining Saloon of tlie South JEVEKYBODY IS INVITED TO CALL A THE GAZETTE. ISTew Series. HARD PRESSED. A WOLF STORY. “Stop, gospodin, stop ! In the name of the blessed Panagia, rein up and hear me. You will be glad to have hearkened, Ecglish lord.” The crisp, shining snow cracked beneath the hurrying feet of the speaker, as panting breath less, he came bursting through the brushwood, and emerged from the pino copse into the road, not a pistol shot from the two pillars of the red granite brought fiom the ural that decorated the extremity of theevenue leading to the coun try hou.-e hard by. With some difficulty the driver of the sledge—a tall, manly young fellow, whose fair hair and ruddy cheeks contrasted forcibly with the swarthy sallowness and black elf locks of the Russian inoujik who had thus suddenly accosted him—brought the fiery horses to a check. “Why, Isaac, ray good friend," he said, smil ing, “whnt news have you for me that brooks no delay in the telling ?” “Excellency,” said the man, with a vehement earnestness whick made itself felt, “I am here to-rfay to pay a debt. We Russians have a memory tenacious of kindness, and the poor vagabond, Isaac Paulovitch, hig not forgotten that but for your intercession he weuld have tasted before this of the black bread and the knotted thong to Jotomir jail. I've run to-day nineteen versts through the snow, to warn you that lhe foreigner and the gentleman who trav els the Vasilkoff road this night carries his life in his hand. I knew you to be on a vist to the baron’s yonder. He’s in no danger, but woe to every castle from the ferry to Boguslaw and Skudra, for they will be one and all in a light flame before inoonrisil” “There is a rising, then, among the serfs?" asked the young Englishman, eagerly. “There is," answered the man called Isaac, with a nod. “The people of the twenty villages have sworn the oath on the gospel to root out these Sobleskis and Jagellons, and the rest of the unbaptized Polish counts and princes and wring the withers of the poor." “Do you mean Count Nicholas Gnlitzin, of Czerngorod?” asked the young man, growing pale as he spoke. “That do I,” replied monjik. “A heavy ac count he'll have to settle, the proud—” But before the sentence was finished the young Englishman had slackened the reins of his steeds, and, to the indefiablc surprise of the querulous Isaac, the whole equippngc rapidly disappeared along the road leading to the very district to which this warning had reference. In the course of ft three year’s residence in Southern Russia, Edgar Marstoa, who was man ager of the land bank at Vasilkoff—a post of trust to which he had been apponted through the influence of relatives—-and gained a thor ough insight into the condition of the province in which he lived, and knew the bitter hate which the Rutheniau peasants entertained to ward the land owners, most of whom were Po lish nobles who had won their estates when Poland was a wide-spreading .kingdom. He knew, too, that Count Galitizin was personally obnoxious to his late vassals for a hundred ar bitrary acts nnd petty exactions, and he trem bled lest he should not reach the lonely manor house in time to give warning to its inmates of their approaching peril. “And Anniet'e i3 there 1” said the young man to himself, half unconsciously,as he encouraged the mettled horses to do their best. Yes, that was the secret of Edgar Marston’s eagerness to give timely notice the coming storm to those beneath the roof of the Gaiitzin castle. He had fallen deeply in love with the count’s young and pretty daughter—the Countess Anniette, as she was called, in compliance with that courtly Russian rule which bestows titles on all the members of an aristocratic family—and he knew that his love was leciprocated. He had, indeed, been formerly on terms of intimacy with Count Galitzin’s household, and although, on propos ing himself as a suitor for Anniettc’s hand, he had been met by a very decided refusal. This short winter's day was nearly spent, and when Edgar reached the outskirts of the village of Czernogorod, the sun bad sunk beneath the black screen of sullen pine trees that marked the boundary of the forest, while through those glared an ominous, ruddy light, and shouts, shots, and a roftr as of an excited crowd came confusedly to the ear. “Heaven help them 1 the castle must be al ready on fire !” exclaimed the young man, as lie saw a tall column of smoke, streaked by fiery showers of sparks and burning flakes lise high in the air. “What by this must be the fate of those within 1” His apprehensions were, however, destined to be proiuptly relieved, since, as lie drove by the low boundary fence of the count’s gardens, he heard his name called, and saw Anniette Galitzin her self come running towards him from amidst the darkling clumps of shrubs. Iler dark hair was hanging loosely over her shoulders, and her lit tle feet, in their dainty Paris shoes, sank at every step in the keep snow, making it evident that in her alarm she had darted forth from the burning manor-house, having barely time to snatch up the short hooded cloak lined and trimmed with costly fur, which she wore. “Mr. Marston-- Edgar!” she exclaimed, with a terrific earnestness, “oh, pray, save me ! Take me with you before they seek me out to kill me. I feel half dead, already, at the very sound of their savage shouts ar.d tramping feet. Papa, thank Heaven,.is safe at Nasilkof, where he and my dear mother went but yesterday, leaving me here ’alone with the German governess, and when the peasants btoke in, Mademoiselle Her zen thought of nothing but her own safety, and fled into the woods, and—” By this time Marston had sprung to tho ground, fastened n ijts to a projecting bough, ESTABLISHED 1859. ELBERTOI, GEORGIA, AUGUSTISO, 1876. and by a vigorous effort had succeeded in tear ing away a portion of the ill-kept fence, so as to establish a gap through which a slender fig ure might pass. Yet a minute and Anniette was seated beside him in the sledge, speeding rapidly away from the pillaged castle. A chilly breeze sprang up, and the evening grew perceptibly cooler, but the sledge was well provided with wraps, and Edgar was careful to draw a heavy furred pelisse around the trem bling form of the young countess, while in fond and soothing words he tried to calm her agitated neives. She was pafe. Within an hour or two he should be able to place her, upen their arriv al at Vasilkof, under the care of her parents, and that before the alarm of the serfs should hare spread itself. The horses went well, the distance was trifling, and— What interrupted Edgar's speech was a fierce startling cry, accompanied by the pattering of feet among the withered leaves and the snow, and then, a long-drawn, whining howl that seemed to issue from fifty throats, while dark objects began to glance, phantomlike, between the trees. “Wolves 1 wolves 1” cried Anniette, with a shriek of terror; but already the affrighted horses had set off at a mad gallop, swerving from side to side of the road in a manner that threatened to upset the siege. Again there burst forth that horrid cry. Marstqn exerted his skill and strength in maintaining a mastery over the snorting horses, and Anniette, looking fearfully back, announced the unwelcome tid ings that they were pursued. “You must be cool, dearest one, now for both our sakes—for mine,” said the young English man, as he cast a glance at the small specks dotting the suow. “You can drive well, I know. Only keep the horses to the road, and all will be well.” As the young countess took tho reins Edgar stooped for his trusty rifle, and leveled it with deliberate aim at tho foremost wolf, now bound ing far before the rest. The huge brute rolled over on the crimsoned snow with a cry of rage and pain that was answered by the yell of the hurrying pack, and [then sucereded a hideous medley of confused sounds, followed by a period of siicnce. “Have they given up the pursuit?” asked An niette, with white lips, as Marston reloaded his piece. “No, no,” answered the young man, shaking his head. “The creatures have but paused, as is their custom, to devour their wounded com rade. It is but an instant's breathing time whieh”— As he spoke he fired both barrels into the thick of the advancing pack. Four more shots from Edgar’s rifle brought down as many wolves, but now they were too near and too eager in their ravening fury to be beaten off. The wind ing of fhe road, too, enabled some of the leaders of the pack to gain upon the fast-flying sledge, and, with a rare audacity, to endeavor to over leap its sides, while Edgar, flinging down the gun, slashed at the broad paws aud hazy throats with the keen blade of bis heavy hunting-knife, and succeeded, though with difficulty, in disa bling the two foremost of the assailants, the third, slightly hurt, slunk howling away ; but, a few yards in the rear, the clamor of the re mainder of the fierce drove told how ruthlessly the chase was maintained He rose to his feet and looked to the right and left. Close to the roadside on the left grew a mighty beech tree. Could he set his back to that tree, kill or cripple the first of the furious wolves, and swing himself up among the lower branches out of reach of the other, he might yet have a chance of life, while the sledge would gain so much vantage ground that it would not be easily ovei taken. Yes, the desperate venture must be risked. Hastily the young man kissed Anniette’s cold cheek, and bidding her be of good cheer since he had devised a stratagem that "vould outwit tho wolves, he struck the straining horses sharp ly with the whip, and with his hunting knife between his teeth, took a clear leap over the low brushwood and feel on his hands and knees at the foot of the beech tree. Goaded by terror the horses flew along the nartow road, which fortunately at this part of its course became straighter than it had hitherto been, and the light sledge was hurried along as if it had been a feather-weight over the frozen snow. A whirl of confused thoughts passed through the girl’s brain as with relentless speed the sledge dar ed on, further and further from the spot where Edgar Marston had sprang out to confront wlmt appeared to be inevitable death. “Forme! for me 1” Anniette murmured, as after a last despairing effort to rein in the un manageable steeds she cast a glance at the white road, now gleaming, as the sledge emerged from the woodland into the open country, in the first rays of a newly tisen moon. The scared horses needed no urging to strain every sinew in the race, as, snorting and gasping for breath, they dashed into the wide, straggling main street of Vasilkof. In the spacious market-place or public square of the town, a crowd had collected, in the midst of which the light of a number of torches fell on the glistening bayonets of steel and the bright brass mounting of military accoutrements. A column of the flat-capped, grey coated infantry of the Russian line was preparing to march, while a cavalry escort encompatsed two or three carriages mounted on sledge-runners, and to each of which three or more horses had been Itarnessed. “Halt, there !” halt, I say I” called out a sen try, roughly, as the sledge that bore Anniette swept like a whirl-wind across the market-place, scattering to right and left in dismay all who barred its ftantic course. Amonr those who had been present when tho sledged had crossed the square had been the old count and countess Gaiitzin. They had recognised their daughter’s pallid face as she was hurried past, and within a few moments the half-fainting girl was in the arms of her parents,’and surrounded by friends and well-wishers, who seemed disposed to wel come her as one risen from the dead. “We are about to set out for Czerngorod,” the Count explained, when Anniette appeared to be sensible to her mother’s caresses and endearing words, “with the escort with which the kindness of his Excellency, the Governor, had provided us, hoping—but hardly daring to hope, my lamb —that you would have been spared in the first outbreak of the tury of those serts of which the news reached us but an hour ago. Troops are about to march for the scene of the revolt, but, since you are safe—though through what marvelous pieces of good fortune I cannot con jecture.” “It was though no such fortune,” interrupted Anniette, piteously; “'twas his life, his gallant, noble life, dearer to me than my own, that he gave to save me—wretched me 1 Yes, lam sufe> but at what a price ?” And hero a darkness came before her eyes, and her voice failed, as she sank fainting into the arms of her mother; but soon, as it nerved by the recollection of her lover’s danger, she roused herself to tell, in broken accents, what had occurred, to indicate the place where she left him, and to implore that rescue might be sent thither without delay. In spite of dismal forebodings, it was determ ined that not an instant should be lost in carry ing help to Edgar Marston, if human help could indeed avail ; and about thirty gentlemen, some in sledges and some on horseback, set off at a rapid pace, escorted by twice as many of the mounted Cossacks, the Governor having decided to delay the marching of the column until sonic tidings should arrive as to Edgar’s fate. The distance was rapidly traversed, and as the ex ploring party entered the forest, a wild, mourn ful sound came floating on the night wind. “They are there yet, the pack of them,” cried old Baron Jagellon, spurring his horse nnd handling his gun. “Push on and let us pepper some of their grey hides at any rate.” But wolves are cunning as well as fierce, and when the rescuers came in sight of the huge beech tree around 'the foot of which the pack had gathered, howling and whining over some object at first indistinctly visible, their querulous cry changed into a note of alarm, and they hud dfed themselves together among the chestnuts birches, with their bushy tails drooping, and their bright eyes shining through the dnrk *ko points pi Hume, Am irregnler dis charge of musketry 'succeeded, while the Cos sacks lowered thier lances, and dashed forward with their shrill “hurrah” as though charging against human foes. Neither lance nor bullet did execution anjoung the wolves, who, fairly cowed, slunk off into the recesses of the woods while the headmost horseman checked his fiery steed but just in time to prevent horse and rider from falling headlong into a deep narrow pit dug at the foot of the huge beech tree. “What wizard’s work have we here?” exclaim ed the soldier as he wheeled his horse. “My name isn’t Dimitri if Ldid not hear a groan from yonder open grave !” “Grave, forsooth I” returned the Baron Jagcl lon, hastily dismounting; “it is a bear trap,such as peasants set in likely spots, near where the honey of some swarm of wild.bees that dwell in hollow trees is sure to tempt bruin to the pit fall. And, as I live,” # he added, after listening for a moment, “there is someone down there, and alive—young Marston, for a thousand gold eagles !” And then, by means of a rope hastily con structed by linking together stirrup-leathers and.buff-belts, a Cossack was lowered into the pit, the truth of this conjecture was confirmed ; for Edgar Marston, pale, livid and exhausted, but to all appearances unhurt save for a bruise upon his right temple, was drawn forth from it. The bystanders crowded round him, hut he was faint and weak. Edgar’s story, when he was able to tell it, was a simple one, and had already been anticipated by that matured sylvan experience of the baron. When he sprang from the sledge it had been with a full conviction that he was about to save Anniette’s life at the {sacrifice of his own. He had, however, made a desperate effort to rcnch the great beech tree, in the poor hope that, by setting his back against it and making vigorous use of his hunting-knife, ho might gain time to grasp one of the lower boughs and draw him self up beyond the reach of the wolves. But to his consternation the treacherous surface on which he alighted, and which was composed of rotten branches coated with moss and dried leaves, gave way beneath his feet, and he was precipitated into the narrow pit below, receiv ing as he fell a blow on the head from a pro jecting stake which stunned him for a moment, and wheD he recovered his senses it was to hear the furious yelping and howling of the disap pointed wolves that raged around the brink of his prison, and to see by the gnashing teeth, as they bent over the edge and vainly tried to eieze the prey beneath them. The tale is told. The prejudices which had induced the Count and Countess Galitzin to object to Edgar as a suiter for their daughter’s hand, melted like snow in the sun when their hearts were touched by the generous self-sacri fice of the gallant young man, whose praises were on ever hand. Newport is moderately gay and com fortably filled. The place would bo much improved by forty-eight hours’ hard rain, and every body is confident it will come, sooner or later. Polo is the reigning excitement, and all for 50c. Why may a tipsy man fall into the river with impunity'? Because ho won’t drown as long as his head swims. Vol. T.-No. 18. AWOMAFS WIT. A gentleman not unconnected with the Boston press wad in St. Louis re cently, and while there confided to a friend the details of an adventure in a Boston hotel so remarkable as to dfeserve a special line in print. The story is brief, but with an immense moral as showing how ih somethings lovely wo man will always come to the relief of a sister in distress to outwit the tyrant man. The journalist above referred to, stopping at the hotel; a private one where the guests were accustomed to the entiro freedom of the lioubo, felt late one night the imperative neccesity of eating somo fruit before retiring. It was too late to selul otit to buy any ; ho did not want to arouse the servants of tho house at so late an hour, and yet fruit or preserves or something tooth some of the kind seemed to him a personal hecccsity. He knew where the store-room was, know that the door was left open, and finally resolVed to go down and prig enough to satisfy his need. No sooner was tho thought con ceived than acted upon, and within fivo minutes lie was in the storeroom hook ing preserves out of a jar and enjoying himself immensely in satisfying Jthe craving which had come upon him. For a few moments the enjoyments of tho man at tho preserves was Com plete. Then ho was startled by a light; swift stop in the hall, there was a which and a rustle of garments, tho door opened suddenly and some ono bound ed in with such suddenness as, coming squarely against the form of tho midnight raider, to kuock him half way across the tho room, and squarely off his feet. Leaping up at once, he closed with bin assailant to be startled by a sudden shriek and to find that ho had captured a woman. Further, and more terrible still, ho discovered that tho pljunp form of tho lady who had wanted something to eat as well as ho was clad only in a night dress. Still, tbbugh trying, the occasion was ono not of umuixed horror by any means, and in a moment tho gentleman’s nerve returned and his curiosity roso to fever heat. “Who is this I ?’’ ho demanded of the pulmp figuro in his arms. No answer. “Who is it!” ho repeated. “You'll not got out of this until you tell." Still no answer, but a struggle in tho darkness, tho plump figuro trying hard to get away. Again the quex-y was repeated, with equal lack of response, but this timo a resounding slap in the face from a hand that was doubtless pretty, but which hit with decided force, was tho roward of the questioner. He was put on bis mettle nt once. “You think you’ll get off unknown ! Wo’ll see about that!” he exclaimed. “I’ve a device that’ll work, I think.” And thon, after a silent aftd determined struggled, ho Jcaught a little ‘bit of the lady’s right cheek between his teeth and b.t it—not badly eons to break the velvety skin, but sufficiently hard to leavo a mark which he know could not disappear for a day or two. Then ho released his unknown prisoner, and she fled like the wind along the passage, disappearing in some room impossible to locate in tbo dai’kness. The next morning the gentleman with a mystery to solve came down to break fast early. No ladies had yet appeared but at his table were one or two intimate male friends, and to them ho confided the story of his adventure in the night, relating also the moans he had taken to secure the identification of the un known lady. The Ynost intense curiosi ty at once prevailed at the table and the advent of the ladies was awaited with an impatience scarcely to bo controlled. Five minutes later the door opened and the belle of tho hotel entered demurely, glided across the room and seated her self for 'breakfast. Eager eyes fol lowed her, and, as her face was fairly ex posed, there was a sensation among the gentlemen. Upon her right cheek was a strip of court-plaster an inch long ! The excited men exchanged glances and whispers and smiles The mystery was solved early. But just then another lady entered, this time a dignified mat ron. As she seated herself there was pisclosed upon her right cheek a piece of court-plaster identical in appearance with that upon the faco of the belle! Another and another lady entered. Up on tho right cheek.of every one of them appeared a piece of court plaster. Tho tables filled up and not a lady at one of them but wore court plaster on tho right cheek ! And then tho gentlemen looking confidently for a revelation wilt ed. Thoy comprehended tho situation. Tho lady who had been captured in the night bad confided her extremity to her friends and they had come to tho rescue to outwit male humanity. They had succeeded, too. The discomfitted men at that particular table knew that be neath one of the many pieces of court plaster in the room were hidden the marks of teeth, but which was the iden tical bit of court plaster they could not tell. And they never learned. “I say, boy, is there anything to shoot around here ?” inquired a sportsman of a boy lie mot. “No, nothing just about here,” replied the boy ; “but our school master ia just over tho hill thore, cutting birch-rods. You might walk up and pop him over.” Orth sighs when. he thinks of that Austrian mission which he Cast aside for fresh honors which crumbled in his grasp. —Tho Turks arc engaged in tho out rage business. —Railroad accidents is the prevailing epidemic. —Ono of tho Turkish driilieS is said to be at the point of starvation. —Sheridan will attempt to' raise it band of 100 Pawnees for scouts. —Anderson (S. C.) Deinocratifc clubs have more members than the prti’ty fete? voted ih tho county. —Troup county lias a Cox which her peoplo want in the Legislature—nt) re lation to “Sunset ” —The damage inflicted by the festive grasshopper is not so extonsive as was at ono time contemplated. —Memphis received her first bale of cotton from Mississippi on the 18th. —Two negroes murdered a farmer named McClish near Fort Donaldson. They beheaded him. Troops! —A New York nogro fatally razored another son of Ham. Troops! —A Washington City black beau fa tally slabbed a friend and brother who was about to marry bis sweetheart. The army must bo incronsod. —J. R. Holloway, colored, in Clay county, has taken the Stump for Tilden and Hendricks. Wire the news to Mor ton 1 —The citizens of Augusta hifte drop ped the code, and Sow pufnfnol each oth er ala prize ling. We Cremate ? is the text for and column editorial in the A.ugusta Chroni cle. You can't Ghent the Old Boy that way, Colonel Grfe#g. —Signs are bcihg discovered to pre sage the election of the Democratic tick et. They are good in their way, but we’ wouldn’t sacrifice a good square vote for a baker's dozen of them. —A financial crisis at Lisbon Catteod a suspension of several banks. —Two robbers entered the State Sa vings Bank, at Dallas, Texas, knocked the president down, and helped them' selves to about S2OO. —The O. A. U.s are putting some sharp Questions to Hayes touching the seventh plank in tho Radical platform. —Grant has vacated the Executivo mansion to drdm tip custom for Long Branch. *—Captain Bancroft Gn'cradi, U. S. N., haH been suspended for two years for punishing a seaman contrary to law. Tho wholesomo cxamplo of a “Confede rate” House is beyond calculation. —Speaking of that “Confederate” House, the yankees have lately got to speaking of it with a capital C. i'ublic Printer Clapp might make a Uote of this. There’s nothing like preparing for tho exigoncice of the future. —Wo believe the public verdict has been mado up as to Senator Norwood's successor. It is T. M. Norwood. —Mr. U. P. Wade nnd Rev. Randolph' Cooper are the prominent candidates for the legislature in Scriven. —The nomination of Jonathan Nor cross by the Radicals set the independ ent sails of Judgo Wright to flapping. —The investigation of the case of ex Treasurer Jones for malfeasance iff office 4e in progress in Atlanta beforo Auditor' Pace. —The Atlanta papers vaguely hint that a prominent Georgian is to be tried for tho attempt to bribe certain mem bers of the late General Assembly. —Pope Barrow is mentioned as being a prominent candidate for tho legisla ture from Clarke. —G, W. Hewitt is renominated for Congress from the Sixth Alabama district. escaped Fenian prisoners reached Now York recently. —Twenty-nine new United States Sen ators will be elected next winter. If the emocrats hold their own and elect nino additional it will give them control of that body. —The Griffin Press and Cultivator at tributes the great increase of insanity among the negroes to religious excite ment. There are others who put it down to natural meanness. —The Radical North can lie about the South faster than the combined press of the South can send forth denials. —Harper’s Weekly is horror-stricken at the idea of Tilden’s election, and yet its pious serenity was not troubled a whit by Belknap’s thievery. —The senatorial convention in the 28th unanimously nominated Dr. J E God frey, of Moigan. —Markham, of Atlanta, is a Radical candidate for Congress. Mark h’m for a defeat. —Dr. Felton has announced himself a candidate for Congress in tho 7th dis trict. Tho 7th has Felt’n interest in this matter. * —Talbot will send up J. C. Mound and J. M. Mathews to the legislature. —Stewart will try to wriggle through with her sixteen candidates for legislat ivo honors. —Tho Radicals have Gove for a candi dato for Congress in tho sixth. —Ben Butler has accepted a proffered nomination for Congress. —The House Committee on Louis iana Federal offices recommended suits against Collector Casey to recover mon ey unappropriated. —Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, has published a letter to tho public, say ing that tho Catholic bishops and clergy have no intention of interfering with tho public school system. —Suits against tho Speaker of the House of Representatives and tho mem bers of the Real Estate Pool Committee who voted for his incarceration have been instituted by Hallet Killbourn for false imprisonment. Mr. Disraeli, England’s Prime Minis ter, has been elevated to tho peerage with the title of Earl of Beaconsfiold, and received the Privy Seal. —A party entered a train on the Union Pacific Railroad and carried off a United States judge to prevent his holding court and qualifying a receiver for tho Colora do Central railway. —Sam Bard has gono to New York to secure an outfit for anew daily. —Schuyler Colfax has been heard from, and is for Ilayes and reform. It might be well to mention that Belknap, Butler, Babcock, Simon Cameron, Zach Chandler aud Grant are also on that pe culiar lino of reform